Disk Defragmenter ACTUALLY NOT WORKING

[Msradell]

Okay so far everyone who asked a question about disk defragmenter not running
has been told it actually is running in the background, well mine isn't! I
open disk defragmenter from the options menu and get the screen and it tells
me that performance could be improved by defragmenting, so I click the
defragment now button, select the drive I want defragmented and then okay.
The screen says defragmenting for about 3 seconds (with the spinning wheel
going) and then the prompt returns to what it originally said. I've looked
in the system monitor and defrag is not running!

What can I do to get disk defragmenter to run? I know I can install a third
party defragmenter but that is only a way around the problem, not a solution
for the problem.

 

[AJR]

Check with defrag last ran; Opeb My Computer>Properties>RtClick
drive>Properties>Tools tab>Defrag now - info box will list last defrag run.

Check "Applications" tab in Task Mnager to verify defrag is running. It is
a "low-level" utility - it runs as permitted by current computer activity.

By default Vista runs defrag 3:00 on Wednesday - Use task scheduler to
modify

 

[Msradell]

As I stated disk defragmenter is not running. It shows the last time it ran
as 2/15/08 and when I check task manager it does not show it running even
after I've just started it! So as I originally stated it is not a running.

 

[Steve Thackery]

As I stated disk defragmenter is not running. It shows the last time it

ran
as 2/15/08 and when I check task manager it does not show it running even
after I've just started it!

You need to go to the Processes tab and click the "Show processes from all
users" button. Have you done that?

SteveT

 

[Msradell]

Yes, that's the way I did it and task manager did not show disk
defragmentation running any time I checked it.

 

[On Request]

Just to satisfy myself, I ran my Disk Defragmenter while I had the Task
Manager open (with Show processes from all users), and there I see:
Defrag.exe -- Disk Defragmenter Module
DfrgMtfs.exe -- Disk Defragmenter NTFS Module
dfrgui.exe -- Microsoft Disk Defragmenter

Do you not see these items?

 

[Msradell]

Correct, I don't see any of those files running in task manager